My name is Jennie. I'm a wife and a mother. I have been married to the man of my dreams, Trever, for 9 wonderful years. We have 5 beautiful daughters who fill our lives with joy and excitement. We just had our 6th child. Our son Caleb.

I was diagnosed with a rare condition called Placenta Accreta along with Placenta Previa. Accreta is a condition where the placenta attaches to the scar tissue in the uterus. It will often continue to grow to deeper tissue (increta) and even through the uterus attaching to other organs(percreta). I ended up having an 11 hour surgery, including a hystorectomy, and bladder repair. I received 7 units of blood and blood parts. (This is a lot of blood loss for my surgeons, but minimal blood loss to those who are not as experienced in these deliveries. I spent 36 hours in the ICU after surgery. I have also had many other complications afterwards including another minor surgery 2 weeks later. These complications are somewhat normal for the type of surgery I had.

I had a team of specialists doing my surgery. Obgyns, Gyno-oncologists, trauma surgeons, urologists and anesthesiologists. This team has specialized in techniques helping with minimal blood loss. Those with accreta , loose large amounts of blood because the placenta cannot detach naturally at delivery.

My goal is to help save women's lives by giving this terrible condition a voice. So many are ignorant to its fatal attack. Doctors and women alike, need to be educated about Accreta. Many have never even heard of it. The numbers are on the rise because of so many women choosing to have c-sections when it isn't necessary. Not all women can avoid it, but many can. Please help me give Accreta a voice, by sharing the information in this blog. (There are numerous posts with information on Accreta as well as the Accreta team who took such great care of me.)

Monday, June 24, 2013

The Lord Bless You and Keep You

My heart is full of emotion today! I heard from sweet Jenifer in an email today. It was so good to see a little more of the old Jenifer in her email. She is coming back to us. She has had a terrible rough couple of weeks. She still is in the hospital. She may be there for another week, but she is alive! I am on cloud nine right now, having heard from her. I follow her blog faithfully and her FB page. But a personal email reply was enough to just make me feel like a million bucks. I have realized that is am very much invested in these sweet women's lives emotionally. Self proclaimed Accreta mommy if you will. Surgery day is a rough one for me. (Not that I am trying to take away from their situation and their day at all) I just re-live my day over and worry about them like crazy on that day. It's still even more rough on Trever. He was a wreck on Jenifers surgery day. He asked me to give him a while before I tell him about any more surgery days etc. he needs to heal emotionally from the horror that he went through first. It's too hard for him to re live it over and over. He really had the rougher part that day. I slept through it all.

I am also emotionally for my two new friends who are delivering really soon. Jody is delivering on Tuesday. Please keep her in your prayers.

When I was replying to Jenifer tonight, I close by saying "may the Lord bless you and keep you." It just popped into my head, but then a flood of emotion came back to me from my college days. The final song of every single choir concert, for years, was "the Lord bless You and Keep You". There is such a sweet spirit that comes with that song. You really need to google it and listen to it. It's beautiful! Here are the words though..


"The Lord bless you and keep you,
The Lord lift His countenance upon you,
And give you peace, and give you peace,
The Lord make His face to shine upon you,
And be gracious unto you, be gracious, The Lord be gracious, gracious unto you.
Amen." It's actually a scripture but anywho, find it... Listen to it... Amazing!!!


I think that is going to be my new Accreta motto. I have had so many moments where I knew that the Lord was carrying me through it all. He was blessing me and keeping me close. He sure loves his daughters. He takes really good care of them. Especially when they are sacrificing for their family. He loves his Accreta warriors. (Not that that is the only way to sacrifice by any means) Accreta is however the riskiest pregnancy condition. Out there. Like my dr said... It goes beyond a high risk pregnancy.


Please keep all of us women in your prayers. It is a road I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I watch in horror as I see my new, dear friends go through it.


On a side note... I talked to the new gal over media at the hospital. At least the Accreta area of it. She talked to a producer who is interested in my story and particularly that I was so passionate about raising awareness that I started a blog, even with all I was going through. We are hoping the the anchor woman likes it when we pitch it to her so we can get her on board to cover the story. It may be bigger than I originally thought too. We will see. It depends on the angle they want to take. I told her (Marcia) that my dream is to be at a seminar, news interview or whatever... With Dr Perlow. I don't have to even be on camera or say anything. I just want to work with him to raise awareness. She said she would do whatever she can to make my dreams come true. Sweet!!


Well, I am off to bed. I hope you all have a wonderful night. Don't forget to love on your husband and snuggle your children a little more. You never know when those moments won't be possible for a long while. I saw my kids about 8 times in over two months. I was on bed rest or recovery rest for over 6 months. No touchy your hubby during those days. It's crummy. I kind of like my husband!
Anyway. Nighty night ya'll!
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